MaggieMS

My Dear Husband and I met at our job at a local restaurant in a small town community in Ohio. He was the kitchen manager and I was a waitress. My co-workers kept trying to get us together, but there was quite an age difference (he's 11 years older). I actually never really considered it, I thought he was cute and all, but too old. So after quite a bit of pressure, he asked me out. Well, I turned him down. Three times! I finally said yes... and we hit it off quite well.

We dated for a little over 3 years before we got engaged. We were married on 7.07.07 in Las Vegas. Mainly because I didn't want a big wedding, and it just seemed like an incredible day to get married in Vegas. It was incredibly HOT out there - averaging around 110 degrees the whole week. We went to the Grand Canyon for our honeymoon. We had a fabulous time!

I work at a Family Physicians office as a receptionist and I see so many women come in for their pregnacies and every time I feel a little piece of jealousy. My only brother and his wife, have just had their 2nd child. They got married 1.5 years before me and have been popping unexpected children out ever since. Lol. They keep getting pregnant by accident, and then here I am - trying SO hard! It's SO unfair.

I was on BCP for a little over 3 years. I have always had a deep desire to have my own children. I heard it can take time to get back on your regular cycle after being on the pill, so I stopped taking it. I did this 1 year prior to my wedding because I knew I wanted to get pregnant right away. I didn't have a period on my own for 6 months after that. Then I had one. Then it went another 7 months before I had another one. Finally, starting in July of 07 (1 week after we were married) I started regularly having a cycle. I thought, wow, this must be it!

In December 07, we had been trying for 5 months after my regular cycles, with no success. So, I started using OPK's to track my LH surge to see when I was ovulating. According to those, I was ovulating around CD 21. I did the BBT tracking, but never really had accurate results, I think I must move around too much in my sleep.

In April, after 4 more months of not getting pregnant - I went to see my OB/GYN. This was the first month since starting the OPK's that I didn't have an LH surge. My cycles have been about 34 days, which was a sign to him that I wasn't ovulating. Which is interesting. He said my cycles were too long. He did a Progestorone level and of course it didn't show that I ovulated... he is thinking maybe I am just ovulating on one side some months and not at all other months. So with my history of strange cycles - he decided he wants to start me on Clomid.

We did a SA on my DH and it came back at 40% mobilty (normal is 75%). This could have been because the lab didn't check it in time, so we have to repeat this in a few weeks to be sure that there isn't a problem with DH.

So, in order to start Clomid, I have to have a cycle. So I am taking Provera to get a AF, so I can start Clomid on CD3. I am on my 6th day of Provera and still havent started, but I was told that it may take up to 10 days after my last pill for it to work.

So, here I am. Waiting it out. Which seems like forever!